1. Read Act 2.2.lines107-114 (pg.849). Explain why
audiences back then would find this so alarming.
2. Read the extended metaphor lines 177-184 (pg. 852) –
what two things are being compared?
3. To be collected this hour…GOAL: To write 1 long, long sentence
using an extended metaphor.
a. First, choose one
item from list A and one from list B
b. Write about how they are similar in a long, long
sentence.
A
|
B
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iPhone
Wet Seal jeans
Skullcandy Skullcrusher headphones
Hunger Games
Beanbag chair
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Just Dance (wii or kinect)
Legos
Knitted Beanies
Eyeshadow
|
Anxiety
Faith
Freedom
Gossip
Sacrifice
Sorrow
Power
Failure
Dedication
Victory
|
Recall sonnet rhyme scheme:
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
·
look at sonnet
lines 9, 11 (pg. 807) and lines 5, 7 (pg. 843)
a.
What do you
notice?
Complete the three stages of
the following Balcony scene activity:
·
STAGE 1: Using Act 2.2 (pp. 845-853), choose the 3 most
important lines from every 20 lines of the scene. In other words, from
lines 1-20, choose the 3 most important. From lines 21-40, choose 3 more.
Continue this all the way through the scene until p. 853. You should end up
with 27 lines total.
·
STAGE 2: Next, using the 27 lines you chose, reduce them to 27
key words. Circle 1 word from
each of your previously chosen 27 lines. These words may repeat themselves and
may not make perfect sense, but should include the 27 most important themes of
each line.
·
STAGE 3: You are to rewrite your 27 lines from Stage 1
o
Simplify the
words of each line.
§
Dumb them down so
that a young person could understand.
o
Keep the same
meaning of each line.
· Finish above
for homework.
ENGLISH homework:
Finish “3 stages” (see details above)
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PLAYWRITING – Day 20
Read Billy Collins poem entitled: Days, then using it as
inspiration for a freewrite, wrote for 5 minutes. Next we underlined the most interesting
things we wrote. Then we chose one of our interesting ideas, and, using it
as our inspiration, wrote again. (5 minutes)
Continued performing our scripts from yesterday.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None
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